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* TwoKeyedLock: [[https://xkcd.com/2677 (description TBA)]]
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* TwoKeyedLock: {{Parodied|Trope}} in [[https://xkcd.com/2677 (description TBA)]]Strip #2677]] where a two-key system is implemented, a device to facilitate the use of that system is developed, and the same system is used on that device.
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* WouldRatherSuffer: The AltText of [[https://xkcd.com/2660/ "Gen Z"]] quotes someone expressing a preference for an early death over a lifetime of eating yogurt.
-->Curdled milk, of a peculiar kind, made after a Bulgarian recipe and called "yaghurt," is now a Parisian fad and is believed to be a remedy against growing old. A correspondent who has tried it, says he would prefer to die young. (1905, The Elk Falls Journal)
-->Curdled milk, of a peculiar kind, made after a Bulgarian recipe and called "yaghurt," is now a Parisian fad and is believed to be a remedy against growing old. A correspondent who has tried it, says he would prefer to die young. (1905, The Elk Falls Journal)
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** [[https://xkcd.com/2661/ Age Milestone Privileges]] has "25: Rent a car, 30: Run for Senate, 32: Rent a Senator's Car" and combines multiple subjects for year 125: "Drink alcohol[[labelnote:*]]21[[/labelnote]] in an R-rated movie[[labelnote:*]]17[[/labelnote]] while getting a shingles vaccine[[labelnote:*]]50[[/labelnote]] from the President[[labelnote:*]]35[[/labelnote]]."
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'''''[[http://xkcd.com xkcd]]''''' is a StickFigureComic by Creator/RandallMunroe. It is a gag-a-day comic and generally does not have a continuing plot line or continuity (though there are occasional short story arcs). Many of the jokes are based on math, physics, science, UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} or [[MemeticMutation Internet memes]], as well as romance and sex. It utilizes AltText for each and every comic, which contains additional jokes and context.
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** [[https://xkcd.com/2594 Consensus Time]] has a different alternate handling of "day".
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* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'s propensity for using specific words over and over is discussed in the strip [[http://xkcd.com/739/ "Malamanteau"]].
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* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'s Website/{{Wikipedia}}'s propensity for using specific words over and over is discussed in the strip [[http://xkcd.com/739/ "Malamanteau"]].
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** Subverted in the AltText to [[https://xkcd.com/789/ "Showdown"]] -- after the apparently sentient tumbleweed managed to gun down both cowboys, it tried to roll off into the sunset, but failed because the winds were blowing it in the wrong direction.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'s propensity for this is discussed in the strip [[http://xkcd.com/739/ "Malamanteau."]]
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** Earlier than that, we have [[http://xkcd.com/446/ "In Popular Culture"]]. It's very subtle, but take a look at the works listed as examples. [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed Any of them look familiar?]] This also [[ParodiedTrope parodies]] Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs, showing Wiki/TheOtherWiki featuring various works containing wood with no narrative purpose.
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** Earlier than that, we have [[http://xkcd.com/446/ "In Popular Culture"]]. It's very subtle, but take a look at the works listed as examples. [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed Any of them look familiar?]] This also [[ParodiedTrope parodies]] Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs, showing Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki featuring various works containing wood with no narrative purpose.
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* JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: [[http://xkcd.com/609/ Seen here]], where a guy finds themself on Wiki/TVTropes and ended up being unable to stop browsing the site. Possibly the first actual work to use this?
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* JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: [[http://xkcd.com/609/ Seen here]], where a guy finds themself on Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes and ended up being unable to stop browsing the site. Possibly the first actual work to use this?
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* WalkingTechbane: [[http://www.xkcd.com/1586/ Here.]]
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* WalkingTechbane: In [[http://www.xkcd.com/1586/ Here.]]this strip]], a guy encounters a computer bug that somehow transfers from computer to computer via his keyboard. His friend mentions that when a robot apocalypse occurs, she plans to hide in his house because "any [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]] drones that come near will develop inexplicable firmware problems and crash".
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* WeirdCurrency: In [[http://xkcd.com/512/ Here.]]this strip]], a news report announces the collapse of the dollar, and that the new currency will be the number of funny pictures saved to your computer.
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* FunTShirt: The trend of shirts featuring "witty" sayings of the misanthropic persuasion is deconstructed in [[https://xkcd.com/23/ "T-Shirts"]]. Ironically, the second-to-last one ended up becoming official XKCD merchandise.
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* BlackSpeech: "[[https://xkcd.com/2657/ Complex Vowels]]" reads: "Linguistics tip: Extend the IPA vowel plane along the imaginary axis to produce the ''complex vowels'', cursed sounds which the human mind cannot comprehend."
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* BrownNote: The titular complex vowels in "[[https://xkcd.com/2657/ Complex Vowels]]", which are incomprehensible cursed sounds made by extending the IPA vowel chart along the mathematical imaginary axis.
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** The [[http://www.xkcd.com/887/ future predictions for 2100]] end with: "Rainforests mostly gone due to climate shifts", "All coral reefs gone" and "Gillette introduces [[UpToEleven 14 bladed razor]]".
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* DoubleBlindWhatIf: Discussed in [[https://xkcd.com/2149/ #2149: Alternate Histories]], which takes it UpToEleven with hypothetical people 500 levels in.
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* DoubleBlindWhatIf: Discussed in [[https://xkcd.com/2149/ #2149: Alternate Histories]], which takes exaggerates it UpToEleven with by having the characters talk about 500 levels worth of hypothetical people 500 levels in.alternate histories.
* OnAScaleOfOneToTen: Parodied with the [[https://xkcd.com/2329 Universal Rating Scale]], which mashes together the 1-10 rating scale (with 0 and 11 included for good measure), the five-star rating scale, the American movie rating system, the American education grade system, the IUCN Red List categories, and the Starbucks cup size chart, among others.
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Discussed in "[[http://xkcd.com/670 Spinal Tap Amps]]", which shows [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap the titular amp that goes up to 11]], and three possible responses to it: a normal person would suggest to cap the scale at 10 and make 10 louder; an engineer would argue that "11" is a meaningless number in this context since it lacks any defined units; but a ''smart'' engineer would offer to sell an amp that goes ''up to 12''.
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* SceneryPorn: There are several strips that have good visuals in them, such as [[http://xkcd.com/1079/ "United Shapes,"]] but [[http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de the absolute ginormous size of]] "[[http://xkcd.com/1110/ Click and drag]]" takes this trope [[UpToEleven way past root 121]].
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* SceneryPorn: There are several strips that have good visuals in them, such as [[http://xkcd.com/1079/ "United Shapes,"]] but [[http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de the absolute ginormous size of]] "[[http://xkcd.com/1110/ Click and drag]]" takes this trope [[UpToEleven way past root 121]].121.
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** [[http://www.xkcd.com/260/ Draw. Make make. Scoop. Pour.]] [[LightningCanDoAnything Tie. Rumble. Boom. Crack. Fuse.]] [[LongList Follow. Detach. Open. Remove. Admire. Examine. Grind. Set. Approve. Give.]]
** [[http://xkcd.com/289/ "Touch."]]
** [[http://xkcd.com/433/ "Park."]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[https://xkcd.com/2275/ "It's like, you know the giant spider downtown that sits on the buildings and sometimes eats cars?"..."I've been meaning to ask, what's with that spider?"]]
* UnwinnableJokeGame: There's [[http://xkcd.com/724/ a strip]] about ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''. Predictably, someone on the internet [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris made a game]] like that. And some managed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reFPscApObs to score lines in it.]]
* UpToEleven:
** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in [[http://xkcd.com/670 Spinal Tap Amps.]]
** The last element of [[https://xkcd.com/2329/ Universal Rating Scale]] is 11.
** [[http://xkcd.com/289/ "Touch."]]
** [[http://xkcd.com/433/ "Park."]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[https://xkcd.com/2275/ "It's like, you know the giant spider downtown that sits on the buildings and sometimes eats cars?"..."I've been meaning to ask, what's with that spider?"]]
* UnwinnableJokeGame: There's [[http://xkcd.com/724/ a strip]] about ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''. Predictably, someone on the internet [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris made a game]] like that. And some managed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reFPscApObs to score lines in it.]]
* UpToEleven:
** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in [[http://xkcd.com/670 Spinal Tap Amps.]]
** The last element of [[https://xkcd.com/2329/ Universal Rating Scale]] is 11.
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** [[http://www.xkcd.com/260/ com/260 Draw. Make make. Scoop. Pour.]] [[LightningCanDoAnything Tie. Rumble. Boom. Crack. Fuse.]] [[LongList Follow. Detach. Open. Remove. Admire. Examine. Grind. Set. Approve. Give.]]
** [[http://xkcd.com/289/ com/289 "Touch."]]
** [[http://xkcd.com/433/ com/433 "Park."]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[https://xkcd.com/2275/ com/2275 "It's like, you know the giant spider downtown that sits on the buildings and sometimes eats cars?"..."I've been meaning to ask, what's with that spider?"]]
* UnwinnableJokeGame: There's [[http://xkcd.com/724/ com/724 a strip]] about ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''. Predictably, someone on the internet [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris made a game]] like that. And some managed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reFPscApObs to score lines in it.]]
* UpToEleven:
** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in [[http://xkcd.com/670 Spinal Tap Amps.]]
** The last element of [[https://xkcd.com/2329/ Universal Rating Scale]] is 11.]]
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** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in [[http://xkcd.com/670 Spinal Tap Amps.]]
** The last element of [[https://xkcd.com/2329/ Universal Rating Scale]] is 11.
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* MixAndMatchCritters: The Omnitaur from [[https://xkcd.com/2653/ the titular strip]] is a beast that comprises the ''cross sections'' of the following (from front-to-back): a bird, a human, a ram, a leopard, a horse, a dragon, a bull, a shark, a snake, a lion, and a fish.
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* RedPillBluePill: Parodied [[http://xkcd.com/566/ parodied.]]in this strip.]] Neo is offered red and blue pills, but instead of choosing between the two, Neo takes both of them, grinds them up, and snorts them. The result is Neo and Morpheus trapped in a weird limbo zone.
* RedundantParody: In "[[https://xkcd.com/964 Dorm Poster]]", a character sees their roommate having put up a poster of the album cover for Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', so they decided to "get back" at them by making a poster that inverts the light dispersion, bunching the rainbow together using a lens and directing it towards an inverted prism to turn it back into white light. The thing is, the concept [[https://i.imgur.com/0msJPJd.jpg has already been used]] for the album's back cover, albeit without the lens.
* RedundantParody: In "[[https://xkcd.com/964 Dorm Poster]]", a character sees their roommate having put up a poster of the album cover for Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', so they decided to "get back" at them by making a poster that inverts the light dispersion, bunching the rainbow together using a lens and directing it towards an inverted prism to turn it back into white light. The thing is, the concept [[https://i.imgur.com/0msJPJd.jpg has already been used]] for the album's back cover, albeit without the lens.
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* HappyBirthdayToYou: "[[https://xkcd.com/1581/ Birthday]]" has the lyrics to the Happy Birthday song, in celebration of both the comic's 10th anniversary and the court ruling Warner/Chappell's claim to the song invalid a day prior. In the strip's AltText, Randall mentions that he should apologize to his family and friends, along with the Chuck E. Cheese's staff, for calling the cops on them every time they sing the song.
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* IAteWhat: In "[[https://xkcd.com/2647 Capri Suns]]", a bag of IV fluid is consumed like a Capri Sun. The saltiness of the "drink" was brought up. The alt text suggests that the doctors called for security after noticing the scene.
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--->'''Beret Guy''': Die, plague-bringer!
--->'''Cursed Chair''': [[evil:HEE HEE I CAN NOT DIE]]
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--->'''Cursedplague-bringer!\\
'''Cursed Chair''': [[evil:HEE HEE I CAN NOT DIE]]
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** Played with in [[https://xkcd.com/1593/ #1593,]] where Beret Guy [[GretzkyHasTheBall seems to believe]] that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
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** Played with PlayedWith in [[https://xkcd.com/1593/ #1593,]] where Beret Guy [[GretzkyHasTheBall seems to believe]] that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
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* LousyLoversAreLosers: The punchline of [[https://xkcd.com/685/ this strip,]] where reporters gather to talk to a scientist who claims the G-Spot doesn't exist, only to find they're interviewing the wrong scientist.
-->'''Reporter:''' Is it true you've been unable to find evidence that the G-spot exists?\\
'''Scientist:''' My research is in solar cells. I think you have the wrong press conference.\\
''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Scientist:''' ''[hanging his head in defeat]'' But... yes.
-->'''Reporter:''' Is it true you've been unable to find evidence that the G-spot exists?\\
'''Scientist:''' My research is in solar cells. I think you have the wrong press conference.\\
''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Scientist:''' ''[hanging his head in defeat]'' But... yes.
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* MouseWorld: Those aren't dandelions; they're the field mice's [[https://xkcd.com/2641/ wind turbines]].
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* ThinkingTheSameThought: "[[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/610:_Sheeple Sheeple]]" has several people each imagining that they're the only person capable of thought.
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* HeAlsoDid: [[invoked]]{{Parodied|Trope}} in "[[https://xkcd.com/2621/ Mainly Known For]]", in which Megan knows several famous people by some of their least prominent traits, from UsefulNotes/SteveJobs being "the Creator/{{Pixar}} guy" to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush being "Creator/JennaBush's dad".
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** [[https://xkcd.com/472/ House of Pancakes]] is ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' meets International House of Pancakes.
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* GoofyFeatheredDinosaurs: Lampooned in [[https://xkcd.com/2090/ this strip]], which denotes that if someone thinks avian dinosaurs aren't scary at all, you can tell they've never [[MuggingTheMonster picked a fight with an ostrich]].
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* GoofyFeatheredDinosaurs: Lampooned in GoofyFeatheredDinosaur: [[https://xkcd.com/2090/ this strip]], which denotes This strip]] lampoons the concept of harmless avian dinosaurs by denoting that if someone thinks avian dinosaurs aren't scary at all, believes in the trope, you can tell they've never [[MuggingTheMonster picked a fight with an ostrich]].
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Has mentioned [[http://xkcd.com/609/ this very wiki.]] The wiki has returned the favor, taking many ''xkcd'' comics for page images (see Trivia.{{XKCD}} for the list), as well as (formerly; may he be mourned) making the image for all pages under the category "Webcomic" a little picture of Black Hat Guy.
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Crosswicking and adding another entry to Bread Eggs Breaded Eggs.
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** [[https://xkcd.com/2600/ "Rejected Question Categories"]] includes categories such as spam ("lonely singles in your area") and phishing ("log into your account by clicking here"). The last category is "?????" and includes a combination of spam, an actual question, and phishing.
---> "Hi, we're lonely singles in your area, and we're wondering what would happen if we shot a nuclear bomb into a volcano! Click here to log in and tell us..."
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* OldSchoolIntroductoryRap: In [[https://xkcd.com/785/ "Open Mic Night"]], two very nerdy rappers go up with raps in the following format: "I'm M.C. [scientific concept] and I'm here to say [line that self-demonstrates the concept]". E.g. "M.C. Aphasia" goes on to incoherently mumble words after introducing herself (aphasia is a language disorder).
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* MegaphoneGag: Strip #81 "Attention, shopper" (the page image) shows Black Hat holding a golf club and announcing over a megaphone that an expensive car in the parking lot was just smashed by a golf club.
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* TheGroundIsLava: {{Subverted|Trope}} in "[[https://xkcd.com/735/ Floor]]", where the children apply volcano management techniques to the game. Namely, blowing up a wall to redirect the flow, using running water to lower the temperature, and calling for helicopters.
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* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Deconstructed [[http://xkcd.com/1521/ here.]] Megan pulls out a sword out of the stone, and thus is crowned the ruler of England, but then she decides to put the sword back in because she doesn't want the burden of having to rule a kingdom.
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** Deconstructed[[http://xkcd.in "[[http://xkcd.com/1521/ here.]] Sword in the Stone]]". Megan pulls out a sword out of the stone, and thus is crowned the ruler of England, but then she decides to put the sword back in because she doesn't want the burden of having to rule a kingdom.
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